tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51125747276395282242024-02-06T21:15:24.683-08:00A bit of silliness, really......just that. Comments welcome -- on content, mechanics, style...whatever..~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-11953469673017354302012-06-18T18:50:00.000-07:002012-06-18T18:50:09.016-07:00Monday! Bear Creek and The First CircleMonday is here! Well I had a moderately long list of things to do today, most of which I didn't get done. I did however finally finish The First Circle by Solzhenitsyn. So it was a day off my mark, but nonetheless, I am quite pleased. I've been struggling through it for several months now! It is indeed a long work, but it is by no means boring or difficult to read. But we all know how it can be after working long days, reading a thought-dense book can sometimes become slow or even be put off. When I read, I want to really <i>read</i>, to be active, to think, not just to skim a story, and so for some weeks this 500 or so page volume has gathered dust beside my bed, being read little by little. <br />
Ah these Russians! The way they work the old and new philosophers into the words, thoughts and actions of their characters -- so subtle, so deliberate, so masterfully. The gift is in the embodiment of a philosophy within the character it seems to me. Before you know it you are seeing an application of thought which perhaps before you only knew theoretically. And again you find yourself sympathetic towards a character whose philosophy of life is absolutely contrary to what you know to be true. Here you are convinced of the innate goodness in man, there you feel intensely that man is at heart a selfish creature. And just when you think you might have it all sorted out, can recognize each prisoner by his three or four names, can match tones and skills to each, can perhaps even guess what will come next for each, how their characters will play out, the circle closes and you are shoved unceremoniously out into the snow again and reminded that this "novel" is not quaint and is not fanciful, but a brief glimpse into a reality not that far off. Oi! I'm sort of dying to go through it again with The Inferno by my side to do comparisons, but that shall have to come some other time... for now I have to continue my quest for 35 books. Next up: Poe Short Stories. Supposed to have finished yesterday, but only about halfway; perhaps this evening.<br />
Seeing as it as Monday, however, I remembered that I haven't posted any music here in quite a while. The other day Brandi Carlile came out with a fantastic new album called Bear Creek. The entire album is really quite wonderful -- introspective, melodic, harmonic. Certainly as good if not better than her previous albums which, frankly, at this point, were they on tape I would have worn out by now. There is something so honest and human in her lyrics, it's difficult not to like even if you are not a fan of the folk genre. It also helps that she has one of the most incredible, controlled yet malleable voices I have ever heard. Yeah, I'm a little bit of a fan ;) Here is a little taste of one of the more known tracks off the new album; enjoy!<br />
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<br />~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-6210932692356505012012-06-14T22:39:00.003-07:002012-06-14T22:39:53.025-07:00Summer!Well Summer is finally here! Despite all the rain this last week, I am nevertheless quite happy with the thought of coming afternoons filled with sunshine and perhaps some swimming. I find it very difficult to write anything during the school year; teaching can be so draining -- physically and mentally. Next year I will have to find a way to continue reading, writing and drawing even during the sometimes tedious weeks of the school year. Last summer I had a goal of reading 35 books, both thick and thin, light and serious. I got to 19 before September rolled around, I think. Let's see, what did I read? Tintin (got it as a surprise gift from my Principal), The Great Gatsby (been meaning to really read this classic, beyond skimming it for my Comp Exam), The Prophet (many thanks to <a href="http://recently-banned-literature.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">William Michaelian</a>), Mere Christianity and A Grief Observed by CS Lewis (Lewis is so incredible, I need to reread The Silent Planet trilogy again), Literary Converts and The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde (by Joseph Pearce, so grand! Can't wait to read his bios of Belloc, Solzhenitsyn, and Shakespeare; he blows me away!) Huh, well, I can't remember any others, and I'm too lazy to turn on the light to look at my bookshelf. More on those later, perhaps? Ha.<br />
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Well, this summer I have a plan to read 35 books as well. Hopefully I can do better than last time? I've finished Lord Jim and am in the middle of The First Circle. Up next I need to finish Essays by Tate and Essays by Milosz, then finish the collected works of Yeats, and finally get through Hirsch's How to Read a Poem. But first I have to find Poe's Short Stories and finish that. I start a lot of books during the school year if you couldn't tell! It's the finishing I have trouble with! It can be so difficult just to sit down and read sometimes! It's not that I do pointless surfing when I'm on my computer -- I read over 100 blog posts a day and follow every post of various design sites -- but it can never feel as comprehensive as reading an entire book. I suppose the remedy would be to set a reading schedule, but I think we can establish the fact that I am not very good with schedules. Ah well! I should be able to get through Solzhenitsyn and Poe by Monday methinks.~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-10400216834623633202012-04-26T16:58:00.000-07:002012-04-26T16:58:17.008-07:00I Swear It's Not Too Late<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fg73MRomwSA" width="480"></iframe><br />
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To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn turn... I would do well to remember this.~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-26607042947522412932011-12-13T20:39:00.000-08:002012-04-09T20:52:51.107-07:0012 Drawings a DayI found <a href="http://vimeo.com/33211636">this little gem</a> a day or so ago (see video below). M. Chapon says of his work "During 3 years (2008-2011) i have been drawing 12 drawing of animation every day, it make one second of film. I had no plans what so ever before starting the first drawing. And then, each of the following days, I took the 3 last drawing from the day before and kept on animating. I use a none erasable pen, and drew on the back side of used A4 paper."<br />
Cool! I always been interested in animation, but have never given it a go. My knowledge is theoretical having only dabbled, as every sixth grader does, drawing stick figures playing baseball or shooting at tanks over the course of a class notebook. Not too sophisticated :) I like how he has random things coming and going, reappearing and appearing, one from the other. It is, in a way, a sort of representation of how thought works -- I think that's why I like it so much. Take a gander, you may be pleasantly surprised :)<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/33211636">12 Drawings a Day - 12 Dessins par Jour</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user2921758">Denis Chapon</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Also the other day I watched <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pixar_Story">The Pixar Story</a>, a documentary about Disney/Pixar. You know, the guys who brought us Toy Story, Monster's Inc., A Bug's Life, and The Incredibles. I kept seeing the title for it on Netflix and elsewhere but for some reason I hadn't watched it yet. I do this thing where I put off watching something even though I really want to see it -- it's super weird, I know. I think maybe I am avoiding being disappointed, maybe? That is all I can come up with anyhow! Well it turns out it was really great! The documentary gives on a good insight into the Disney world and the challenges that computer animators face, while at the same time putting faces and characters into the works that we have come to know and love through this working relationship of the Disney and Pixar studios. I think that people forget that Disney was first and foremost an illustrator and a story teller. This film delves into the modern problem of bringing cool animation and the story together, while continuing the Disney, and now Pixar, tradition, as well as what it takes to finance, via a young Steve Jobs, such a new and expensive company.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihU1OuhvrtNGwj4qc0nwL48aAJlI49OxIlrvvWTgKsQIRdgPEPp-1-8wLJRUmhM_d57vz7J7mPRPfcLzCiJrwIEvw5rHVNUdFjz41-FMQi4liFtaFX8AwB9CV7NXk4wGTyHZhRh3JIi-8/s1600/the-pixar-story-film-poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihU1OuhvrtNGwj4qc0nwL48aAJlI49OxIlrvvWTgKsQIRdgPEPp-1-8wLJRUmhM_d57vz7J7mPRPfcLzCiJrwIEvw5rHVNUdFjz41-FMQi4liFtaFX8AwB9CV7NXk4wGTyHZhRh3JIi-8/s320/the-pixar-story-film-poster.jpg" width="236" /></a>When I was a young kid, around 13 or 14, a good friend of our family gave us our first computer. I immediately became fascinated and started doing designs for my mom's embroidery business. These designs were nothing incredibly difficult or complicated, mostly lettering and simple logos, all by trial and error. I liked it though, and the rigorous problem solving it presented. I remember in the those first days he showed me a program that was, I realize now, a very clunky illustrator. In fact, I think it was one of these programs in which you can't really do anything, but which merely showcases an up and coming technology. He told me that if I were interested in such things, I should let him know and he could give me more information and help about it. My mind took flight that day, imaging the things I could draw and animate with such a thing. Shortly thereafter this friend moved with his family and we lost touch. The computer was something I worked on by myself, learning as I went, like many other things I loved as a child, teaching myself. This is the way it always seemed to go, and even now it is hard to find like minded people even among my most intimate friends. It's not something I feel bad about, for the most part, but it does make me wonder sometimes what I would have been. We all can wonder about what we would have been, if we had taken a different path, I suppose, a symptom of human regret. Every once in a while I come across something like this documentary and it stirs up those feelings of fascination and excitement that I experienced when first I saw it as a child. I like that. It's like Proust's madeleines, and it makes me feel.~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-34969290308225568502011-12-10T14:31:00.001-08:002011-12-10T15:42:27.323-08:00'Ello!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSsNussyvOi3do012C6_S43FxVqEsjvlh4XCWqGXVZ1cdmu_FRRVWLLld5By-X2GZjGmruaUbKHZtfgootPQY7a5c3TFn8MC6FBX8maGBH3UNIKVLGiWzt9n4qlFOlr1azc-JIsSVv3o/s1600/zone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBSsNussyvOi3do012C6_S43FxVqEsjvlh4XCWqGXVZ1cdmu_FRRVWLLld5By-X2GZjGmruaUbKHZtfgootPQY7a5c3TFn8MC6FBX8maGBH3UNIKVLGiWzt9n4qlFOlr1azc-JIsSVv3o/s320/zone.jpg" width="236" /></a>Hello all. Hello me. Hello blog :) (Wow, this is a seriously ugly and boring background, what was I thinking?) It has been a while. Graduating from university can throw a person into quite a tailspin. A good year and a half now has passed, and I've been busy getting older and trying to make my way. A little reading, a little painting, a little crying, a little working (read: mostly working) and not much writing. More about that later, perhaps?<br />
Never fear, I have faithfully been reading away each night, keeping up on my blog reading queue, and have even gotten a few honest to goodness books read in the meantime. I sometimes get discouraged when reading about famous people and all the books that they read and that influenced them. Sometimes half the books that they list as being most influential I have never even heard of, and I think to myself how could I ever be at their level? But I also take courage in the fact that I have read loads of "modern" books that they will never read. We can't read all the books in the world, but we can try can't we? Well, as long as we keep reading that is what counts -- until that day in the nuclear waste land when we crush our only pair of reading glasses. Yes, I am a nerd and that episode of Twilight Zone haunts me!<br />
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Anyhow, I seriously buy too much stuff from Amazon. Well too much is a relative term here. If wanting something for more than five or more years then finally getting it is too much, then we are in the right realm of the words. At least it makes me infinitely excited about my purchase (Amazon should pay me to advertise lol)! And anyway, you can never have enough books and music I keep telling myself :)<br />
FINALLY bought this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/100-Carols-Choirs-Collections/dp/0193532271/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323558831&sr=8-1">100 Carols for Choirs</a>. It's by David Willcocks and John Rutter (whom I adore) and chock full of favorite Christmas music, mostly SATB with piano accompaniment. <a href="http://stealing-fire.blogspot.com/">Katie's</a> Grandmother had it when I lived in upstate New York a few years ago and I've been dying for it ever since. My sisters were a little less excited than I since they think they can't read music, but they will come around I'm sure. In fact the other day they were calling me in to sing some alto on Once in Royal David's City. The songs they know they will pick up and sing, not realizing they are doing a fair amount of note reading, but if they haven't seen it before it is too much. Little kids just learning to read do this too -- whenever I'm in the library there are always a few students who won't attempt a book because the words are too small and numerous. Sometimes I find the same book for them with bigger print and more pictures and they are convinced to read it. Oh well, they'll get there too :) Speaking of carols, I'm supposed to go do that in 15 minutes, so I ought to get bundled up. Will finish gushing at a later date.~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-59824362979899546112011-02-19T14:40:00.000-08:002011-02-19T14:42:03.632-08:00Rivers and things...So I happen to like visuals things. Numbers and figures mapped out in shapes and figures. Here is an interesting mapping out of rivers: <br />
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Check it out, you may enjoy :D~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-52171615674035422612011-01-24T21:48:00.000-08:002011-01-24T21:48:56.330-08:00Regnum BeatiI, residing in the chair of comfortitude and having dominion over this blessed realm, henceforth declare this day and all of the following unto eternity or until that time at which this day shall cease in its existence forthwith to be dubbed and celebrated as Malt Monday. <br />
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No I can't take one more step towards you<br />
Cause all that's waiting is regret<br />
And don't you know I'm not your ghost anymore<br />
You lost the love I loved the most<br />
I learned to live half alive<br />
And now you want me one more time<br />
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And who do you think you are<br />
Running around leaving scars<br />
Collecting your jar of hearts<br />
And tearing love apart<br />
You're gonna catch a cold<br />
From the ice inside your soul<br />
So don't come back for me<br />
Who do you think you are<br />
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I hear you're asking all around<br />
If I am anywhere to be found<br />
But I have grown too strong<br />
To ever fall back in your arms<br />
I learned to live half alive<br />
And now you want me one more time<br />
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And who do you think you are...<br />
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And it took so long just to feel alright<br />
Remember how to put back the light in my eyes<br />
I wish I would have missed the first time that we kissed<br />
Cause you broke all your promises<br />
And now you're back<br />
You don't get to get me back<br />
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And who do you think you are...<br />
Don't come back for me<br />
Don't come back at all<br />
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Who do you think you are~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-83272112127085514962010-06-29T01:45:00.000-07:002010-06-29T01:45:36.445-07:00Music: The Moondoggies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRV88AVum5WY_uS-Dgg9YikV9EqArhg967EXHhN7l_Ui_YAdx_1b-Zx8VbdVh1eDa9y-pzuWMsMHsIhjvypxWgIicxHyj3hmYWU6CX2BVf1VFfi2jQZmEiF_wfz3n5RYZfnpSwa4Lc1c/s1600/80's.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRV88AVum5WY_uS-Dgg9YikV9EqArhg967EXHhN7l_Ui_YAdx_1b-Zx8VbdVh1eDa9y-pzuWMsMHsIhjvypxWgIicxHyj3hmYWU6CX2BVf1VFfi2jQZmEiF_wfz3n5RYZfnpSwa4Lc1c/s320/80's.jpg" /></a></div>Well, just discovered this band the other day from a free album I picked up from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JFXA3C/ref=sr_1_album_17_rd?ie=UTF8&child=B003JG2SNY&qid=1277799806&sr=1-17">Amazon</a>. I've posted their song "The Undertaker" below for your general entertainment :) Give it a listen! All I know is that they are from Seattle, of course. I would fill you in on more info except that they don't have a Wikipedia page. Anyone who is anyone has a Wikipedia entry. Right? Oh, wait... Well anyhow, the lead guy Kevin Murphy has a beautiful auburn beard, and really, that's all I need to know. I'm just sayin...<br />
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Anyhow, who doesn't love free stuff? Especially music :)<br />
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Speaking of getting free albums from Amazon, I also downloaded <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-80s-Vol-1880s/dp/B002RHVBHU/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1">I Love the 80's</a> (the 1880's, that is), which is totally fantastic. Brahms, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak... etc. I love the album cover the most though. Ha!... also I just realized that my listing of some of the composers was pointless because it lists them right on the album cover. Oh well, we will just pretend that I'm efficient. Ok? ok!<br />
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Well, here you go:<br />
"The Undertaker" - Kevin Murphy of The Moondoggies live at KEXP in Seattle.<br />
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2) I read <i>The Stranger</i> by Albert Camus at least once a year.<br />
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3) When I was a kid I had an orange pair of long shorts and an orange striped shirt that I wore almost every day after school... one day it disappeared... I think we all know where it went... <br />
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4) I didn't drink anything on my 21st birthday.<br />
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5) I know how to shear sheep.<br />
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6) I wear brown with black all the time.<br />
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7) I buy new socks constantly.<br />
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8) I'm reading <i>Moby Dick</i> for the 5th time.<br />
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9) I've probably spent more money on sports equipment than anything else, but have bought more books than anything else. Except maybe socks. Maybe.<br />
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10) I have several pairs of shoes that I've only worn once.<br />
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11) I jumped out of a second story window at school my senior year... it hurt but I couldn't tell anyone lol.<br />
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12) I always deform paper clips... I can't help it...<br />
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13) I used to remind my mom that she was supposed to spank us for something we did earlier in the day.<br />
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14) I can make a half court shot.<br />
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15) I still won't sleep in a house all by myself.<br />
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16) I laugh whenever people get hurt, especially if they make funny faces.<br />
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17) I work at the Police Department.<br />
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18) My first kiss was in Kindergarten.<br />
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19) Speaking of Kindergarten, I was suspended twice, and my best friend was expelled for smoking behind the school.<br />
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20) For some reason, whenever I tell someone to say something stupid at a drive through window they often do it. It's hilarious.<br />
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21) I have a vendetta against the US postal service.<br />
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22) One time I broke my toe... running in the house.<br />
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23) I also bit through my tongue... running in the house.<br />
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24) I still run in the house.<br />
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25) but not with scissors.~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-18465595183954819542010-06-22T01:44:00.000-07:002010-06-22T01:44:21.044-07:00Neil Young: PhiladelphiaAh well, missed Monday by an hour or so :) One does what one can. Here is a Neil Young song from the movie Philadelphia.<br />
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I found this illustration of the scope of the spill; if you add your city and state it places the area of the spill over the area in which you live. Above you can see it over Spokane, WA. It is pretty revealing, since it is sometimes difficult to gage distance in pictures of the Gulf. I first saw this weeks ago, and, of course, whenever I pull it up again to show someone, the area has increased. Check it out:<br />
<a href="http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/">If It Was My Home</a><br />
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Also here are a few pictures taken along off the coast of Louisiana and then a slideshow of various telling pictures since the explosion:<br />
<a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html">Wildlife Caught in Spill</a><br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/27/us/201005_oil-spill-photo-gallery.html?ref=us">Slideshow of Spill and subsequent clean up attempts etc.</a><br />
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Then, in the NYTimes there are a few good articles about the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/28/us/20100428-spill-map.html">impact on wildlife</a> and the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/25/us/20100525-topkill-diagram.html">efforts to fix the spill</a>. If you haven't read about it and don't understand why they can't just "plug the spill", they do a pretty clear job of explaining it here, with diagrams etc. Also, in the wildlife tab, it explains why the spill is so harmful to many different types of wildlife. For example, even dolphins are effected, because they tend to be sociable and follow the boats, getting dangerously close to the spill.<br />
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Now a solution? I read this article in the FiTimes which I thought was pretty interesting: <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4ab849c2-78dd-11df-a312-00144feabdc0.html">To Save the Gulf, Free the Mississippi</a>. (btw if it denies access through that link, just google the title and it should come up...)<br />
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Finally, here is a video from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos">Nottingham Uni's Periodic Table Vids</a> which talks about the chemistry behind the oil spill and a little bit about why it is so hard to clean up and so dangerous for wildlife, especially birds. It's rather short, but does a great job of explaining:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMe073_Gl4o-Cae3Ni7FL2hHO3MfxMi4aBzlfMMjglU8-6zxQD6QYBHusXc3MeM8gc9sysOr0AChFrByF0U-Pc8H55siJ0Z5rFPN63RGQn4Ce6MNGUDx5BxBn6a63pQs-3hdHZl3ARtAc/s1600/SOCCER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMe073_Gl4o-Cae3Ni7FL2hHO3MfxMi4aBzlfMMjglU8-6zxQD6QYBHusXc3MeM8gc9sysOr0AChFrByF0U-Pc8H55siJ0Z5rFPN63RGQn4Ce6MNGUDx5BxBn6a63pQs-3hdHZl3ARtAc/s320/SOCCER.jpg" /></a></div>Unfortunately I will only be able to watch about one match, since I don't have ESPN. At least ABC is broadcasting the US vs. England match -- of course I'm rooting for the US this time around since the Irish were robbed of their World Cup chance back in November by an obvious hand-ball off of France's Thierry Henry. The US is in group C this Cup season, which isn't too bad because they are expected to make it through, regardless of whether they win against England or not. Thank the good Lord above that they aren't in Group G which included Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, North Korea and Portugal -- well named the group of death.<br />
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Listening to the France vs. Uruguay match right now on ESPN radio, ending in a nil tie. Pretty good game with many scoring chances and a telling hand ball off of Henry's shot. How do you like it Thierry Henry, sucks when a hand ball ruins perfectly good World Cup hopes doesn't it? Anyhow, looking forward to tomorrow's game!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiehS-e3dR6TaptQ1v6KGm_YIB2zfpvrfXp6WVt11pBiUPwEqFQve7u-z0p4i5uVS2HoPg9xIBxpVh_Ga29lkzCspzduQmvLKIFllZVXwUDo6ygFdgpXzW9QDGx1St0OGnOaBGL4MnoIN0/s1600/alg_blackhawks-score.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiehS-e3dR6TaptQ1v6KGm_YIB2zfpvrfXp6WVt11pBiUPwEqFQve7u-z0p4i5uVS2HoPg9xIBxpVh_Ga29lkzCspzduQmvLKIFllZVXwUDo6ygFdgpXzW9QDGx1St0OGnOaBGL4MnoIN0/s320/alg_blackhawks-score.jpg" /></a></div>In other sports news, the Blackhawks took home the Stanley Cup on Wednesday after a 49 year drought, the longest in the original six's history. So excited, since I happen to be a die hard Chicago fan. It's about time! Winning in overtime in game six, the Hawks pretty much dominated the Flyers. But I have to say, Philadelphia just kept coming back! Patrick Kane scored the sudden death overtime goal at 4:10, sneaking it past Leighton into the corner of the net. Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy4UZbtxxkY">the clip</a> if you so desire, the goal light didn't go on and nobody knew what was happening, except the celebrating Hawks! What a performance! Big hits, big goals, big win! (whoh, the word "big" sounds so strange after saying it so many times... big big big big big big...)~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-70483311962768176322010-06-11T00:02:00.000-07:002010-06-12T15:47:44.007-07:00Then again...<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Well, well, well. Look who we have here. Oh. It's just me. ha! I realize that my absence has been relatively prolonged, sorry about that. A lot has happened since I last posted anything of great interest... ok well, at least anything of any interest :P... but we shall get to all that later perhaps. A friend the other day said "so many thoughts, so little time...", which I countered "so little thoughts, so much time...". I will admit I was feeling somewhat guilty about this, but he encouraged me saying that it is natural to feel a bit emptied out after graduation. I think I'm feeling a little more than that, but that is ok. At any rate, I made some changes trying to find some sort of focus for the time being. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Also I gave up facebook for 30 days. This has given me time to read several books (half way through book four, not too shabby... no wait, make that five, I reread Beowulf...does that count?) and get some writing done, however short. It has not however given me time to clean my room yet. weird. More time to work in the orchard with the irrigation system we are installing, every other day, incidentally, since the rain comes and goes, and to clean up around the place, fixing fences and chicken coops and what have you. <br />
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The facebook thing has been a little hard, but this is day ten and I don't think that I will fall short of the thirty days. It gets easier as the days go on, for several reasons. At any rate I stand to gain a book of my choosing if I last the month. Woot!<br />
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Well, that is all for now.</div>~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-57587547067028054662010-05-31T22:24:00.000-07:002010-06-11T00:46:10.648-07:00Memorial Day"We use the phrase 'gave their lives,' but they didn't give their lives...they were taken from them. I wish we could dedicate Memorial Day, not to the memory of those who have died at war, but to the idea of saving the<br />
lives of the young people who are going to die in the future if we don’t find some new way-some new religion maybe-that takes war out of our lives. That would be a Memorial Day worth celebrating." - Andy Rooney<br />
Read more <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/26/60minutes/rooney/main697964.shtml">here</a><br />
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And then a song from <a href="http://www.libera.org.uk/">Libera</a>, We Are The Lost:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hi there :) Yes, it's Monday. Yay Monday! or something. Anyway, here is a song from </span><a href="http://www.switchfoot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Switchfoot</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> -- perhaps my favorite off the album </span><a href="http://www.switchfoot.com/switchfoot/product/?catID=17&prodID=232"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nothing Is Sound</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. Well that or "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine"... or "Stars"... ok I like the whole album, nevermind! Anyhow, I'll post the lyrics below for your general perusal. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">About this song Jon Foreman said : </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Drew's feedback on this track was so great. he had two combos cranked with different pedals chained to each. Noise never sounded so beautiful! But the true hero for me on this tune was Tim. Don't tell him I said this but he's a freaking genius when it comes to parts like this. I walked back into the control room and there was Paul Mc- I mean Tim- making things happen. I tend to write some of my favorite songs on significant days in my life- birthdays and such. Anyhow, here's a tune that was written on new years day 2004. I pulled an acoustic demo of the song together and threw it on the pile of songs we had for the record. We loved the way the vocal sounded on the demo- raw and honest so we kept it. To sing a song about the new year in march just wouldn't sound quite right, so the vocal on the record is the first time I ever sang the song: 1/1/04. This one means a lot to me, like our modern day Psalm of sorts. This would be the next step from the beautiful letdown lyrically and musically- a long meandering song about how the end of the world might actually be a beautiful day. It will be a day like this one when the world caves in..."</span></span><br />
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Is this the new fear or just another fright?<br />
Is this the new tear or just another desperation?<br />
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Is this the finger or just another fist?<br />
Is this the kingdom or just a hit n' miss?<br />
A misdirection, most in all this desperation<br />
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Is this what they call freedom?<br />
Is this what you call pain?<br />
Is this what they call discontented fame?<br />
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It'll be a day like this one<br />
When the world caves in<br />
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I'm singing this one like a broken piece of glass<br />
From broken arms and broken noses in the back<br />
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?<br />
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You push until you're shoving<br />
You bend until you break<br />
Do you stand on the broken fields where your fathers lay?<br />
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It'll be a day like this one<br />
When the world caves in<br />
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There's nothing here worth saving,<br />
Is no one here at all?<br />
Is there any net left that could break our fall?<br />
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It'll be a day like this one<br />
When the sky falls down and the hungry and poor and deserted are found<br />
Are you discontented? Have you been pushing hard?<br />
Have you been throwing down this broken house of cards?<br />
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It'll be a day like this one<br />
When the world caves in<br />
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Is there nothing left now?<br />
Nothing left to sing<br />
Are there any left who hasn't kiss the enemy?<br />
Is this the New Year or just another desperation?<br />
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Does justice never find you? Do the wicked never lose?<br />
Is there any honest song to sing besides these blues?<br />
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And nothing is okay<br />
Till the world caves in<br />
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Until the world caves in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Finally, one last thing: I could use some good news, we all could use some good news, does anyone have some good news? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Post it in the comment section!</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span>~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5112574727639528224.post-46060427872587235662010-04-19T13:10:00.000-07:002010-06-11T15:37:16.744-07:00Music: Soria MoriaOk so, today is Monday, and Mondays are now my music day; 1. Because I need to post more often, and somewhat regularly and 2. More importantly, because I love music! I was going to call it New Music Monday, but I'm an old school sort of gal at times. So beware, this could be anything from Gregorian, to Beethoven, to the Beatles, to George Strait. Yes, I realize that makes me weirdly eclectic. Anyhow, now that I have established music on Mondays, be quite aware that I will probably not follow task ha! Also, I'm glad that I already had this song picked out because this morning I had (and still have) Eric Carmen's "Hungry Eyes" stuck in my head, and I wouldn't want to do that to you. I will thank <a href="http://recently-banned-literature.blogspot.com/2010/04/hungry-eyes.html">William</a> for this calamity, although his post had to do with another song completely; but you can't be born in the 80's and not think of the Dirty Dancing song when someone says "Hungry Eyes". You just can't. <br />
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Theodor_Kittelsen,_Soria_Moria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Theodor_Kittelsen,_Soria_Moria.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Well, today is a song by <a href="http://www.sissel.net/">Sissel Kyrkjebø</a>, a Norwegian singer. I first heard this song, and was struck by it, several years ago, when a roommate introduced me to her music. Sissel has a really amazingly beautiful voice, pure and unaffected, especially in her early albums. This title song is from one of her earlier albums (1989 I believe), Soria Moria. Soria Moria is a common Norwegian fairy tale about an askeladden who searches out Soria Moria and becomes a great lord. A short version of the story is available <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soria_Moria_Castle">here</a>. I was always struck by this song because of its haunting melody and its beautiful story. I would say that you don't even have to know Norwegian to understand the movement of the legend of Soria Moria. As it is, I only know one word of Norwegian. Btdub, I find the English write-over in this video pretty annoying, but what can you do?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Anyhow, enjoy! I have to go write a paper on St. Augustine and his theory of peace. What joy fills my heart at the very thought. Or something.</span></span><br />
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</div>Ha! I am constantly cringing when people use "literally" wrong. I hear it probably every day. It's that bad.<br />
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Kudos to <a href="http://xkcd.com/">xkcd.com</a>, of course :D Oh, and welcome to all the new silly people: Pallav, Elisabeth, Vatche. Have fun! and check out other followers' blogs, but don't check out <a href="http://stealing-fire.blogspot.com/">Stealing Fire</a>; she is not a follower, albeit very, very silly. She probably should be tarred and feathered... I'm just sayin...~im just only me~http://www.blogger.com/profile/17468965486093974442noreply@blogger.com2